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When it comes to travel and discovery, I’m a devout believer that cycling strikes a sublime and natural balance. It encourages an immersion within the planet around us, at a pace that’s in keeping with the evolution of our minds. …

A peek inside the rather beautiful book ‘A Cycling Lexicon’ – a pictorial A–Z of bicycle headbadges collected by Jeff Conner, a professor of biology in Michigan, and curated and designed by London-based Carter Wong Design (and available to buy here). “Many …

It was fall. I had just moved from Warsaw back to London, completing the cycle of getting sick of those cities and then missing them again. Loving them and hating them. Leaving, only to come back. Again and again. I had …

Last night I had a dream that I was riding through the night sky on a bicycle, covered in feathers, a thousand different coloured quills. Ever since Elliot pedalled ET across the moon on his BMX, I’ve wanted to be up …

“Stepping off the plane in Deadhorse, AK, at the top of the world, we could see absolutely nothing but fog in all directions. It was just surreal, like being lost in a dream. The first week of the trip we …

Perhaps the greatest endurance feat of all time, and one of the least well-known and celebrated, Tommy Godwin’s record-breaking 1939 ride is a feat of physical and mental endurance so momentous, so outrageous, that it’s difficult to fully comprehend what the achievement actually represents. If you …